"""All in the Family"", featured Archie Bunker as Garnett's analog. Like Garnett in British popular culture, Bunker became an icon in American popular culture for his very conservative views, although the Bunker character was portrayed as somewhat more likable than Garnett ever was. Bunker, in turn, served as an inspiration for Eric Cartman of ""South Park"". The German version of the show, ""Ein Herz und eine Seele"", featured Alfred Tetzlaff as Garnett's analog, although Tetzlaff was also designed as a parody of Adolf Hitler. In the movie ""Till Death Us Do Part"", Alf receives a letter advising him that he"
"Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ""Educating Archie"" and ""Hancock's Half Hour"". He also performed minor roles in several movies. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"" (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised the role in"
"his 90th birthday. Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ""Educating Archie"" and ""Hancock's Half Hour"". He also performed minor roles in several movies. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"" (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised"
"Alf Garnett Alfred Edward ""Alf"" Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"" and its follow-on and spin-off series ""Till Death..."" and ""In Sickness and in Health"". Alf also starred in the chat show ""The Thoughts of Chairman Alf"". The character was created by Johnny Speight and played by Warren Mitchell. Alf was born in Wapping around 1917. He was always unpopular as a lad and it was said he only began going out with his wife Else, whom he had known since they were children, as a result of his mother's intervention. A"
"The Alf Garnett Saga The Alf Garnett Saga is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis and Adrienne Posta. The film was the second spin-off from the BBC TV series ""Till Death Us Do Part"". It starts where the first film finished, but with Angelis and Posta now playing Mike and Rita, the roles previously played by Antony Booth and Una Stubbs. With the Garnetts' Wapping home demolished, Alf and his family are installed in a high-rise council flat. Alf struggles with ""living in the sky"", using lifts (which frequently"
"A.Y.P. Garnett Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett (September 8, 1820 – July 11, 1888) was an American physician. He was President of the American Medical Association, and served Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War. He was a graduate of the George Washington University Medical School. Alexander Yelverton Peyron Garnett was born in essex country, September 19, 1820. He was the son of Muscoe Garnett and Maria Battile, his wife. Among ancestry were many of the best known old families of Virginia. His childhood was spent at his home, and his education conducted under private tutors. Garnett"
"break down due to power cuts ""caused by the striking miners"") and walking long distances to the local pub. The Alf Garnett Saga The Alf Garnett Saga is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis and Adrienne Posta. The film was the second spin-off from the BBC TV series ""Till Death Us Do Part"". It starts where the first film finished, but with Angelis and Posta now playing Mike and Rita, the roles previously played by Antony Booth and Una Stubbs. With the Garnetts' Wapping home demolished, Alf and his"
"and John Reid. On 9 June 2010 during Prime Minister's questions David Cameron referred to Ed Balls as ""the new Alf Garnett of British politics"" following his comments on immigration. Alf Garnett Alfred Edward ""Alf"" Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"" and its follow-on and spin-off series ""Till Death..."" and ""In Sickness and in Health"". Alf also starred in the chat show ""The Thoughts of Chairman Alf"". The character was created by Johnny Speight and played by Warren Mitchell. Alf was born in Wapping around 1917. He was always unpopular as a"
"Dandy Nichols Dandy Nichols (born Daisy Sander; 21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"". Born Daisy Sander in Fulham, London, she started her working life as a secretary in a London factory. Twelve years later, after drama, diction and fencing classes, she was spotted in a charity show by a producer, who offered her a job in his repertory theatre company in Cambridge. During her early career"
"Frank Gannett Frank Ernest Gannett (September 15, 1876 – December 3, 1957) was an American publisher who founded the media corporation Gannett Company. He began his career in 1906 as half owner of the ""Elmira Gazette"". He soon added newspapers in Ithaca, Rochester, Utica, and other cities in upstate New York. At the time of his death, the chain included 22 daily newspapers, four radio stations, and three television stations, largely based in the state of New York. Gannett was known for granting editorial autonomy to the different media, while consolidating and standardizing business procedures and purchases. Gannett disliked sensationalism,"
"disease on 6 February 1986 aged 78 at the London Hospital, Whitechapel three days later. Dandy Nichols Dandy Nichols (born Daisy Sander; 21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom ""Till Death Us Do Part"". Born Daisy Sander in Fulham, London, she started her working life as a secretary in a London factory. Twelve years later, after drama, diction and fencing classes, she was spotted in a charity show by a producer, who"
"facts he plods like a German; when his playful wit is unmasking quackery he flashes like a Frenchman."" Richard Garnett (philologist) Richard Garnett (25 July 1789 – 27 September 1850) was an English philologist (historical linguist), author and librarian at the British Museum (i.e. what is now the British Library). His son was also Richard Garnett (1835-1906) and also went into the British Library, making a name for himself as a scholar, biographer and poet. Through him are descended several writers and connections with the Bloomsbury Group. Garnett was born at Otley in Yorkshire on 25 July 1789, the eldest"
"Oliver H.P. Garrett Oliver H.P. Garrett (May 6, 1894 – February 22, 1952) was an American film director, writer, newspaperman, rifleman and usher. Oliver H.P. Garrett was born in Laurens County, South Carolina. By the fall of 1917 he was a rifleman who fight against the Germans, but he was wounded and won the Distinguished Service Cross. He interviewed Al Capone and Adolf Hitler in 1923 after the failed Pusch and in the early 1930s. He was a newspaperman for ""New York Sun"" in the 1920s, and he was the only on board of the SS ""Morro Castle"" until his"
"Erle Stanley Gardner Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr. Born in"
"David Garnett David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was a British writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname ""Bunny"", by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life. Garnett was born in Brighton, the only child of the writer, critic and publisher Edward Garnett and his wife Constance, a translator of Russian. Through his father, he was descended from a writer and a philologist who both worked at what is now the British Library, then within the British Museum. Bloomsbury and the"
"James Garner James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western series ""Maverick"" and Jim Rockford in ""The Rockford Files"", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including ""The Great Escape"" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964), ""Grand Prix"" (1966), Blake Edwards' ""Victor/Victoria"" (1982), ""Murphy's Romance"" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, ""Space Cowboys"" (2000)"
"far always in Atlanta. The 2018 event was G4G13. Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He is recognized as a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. ""The Annotated Alice"", which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most"
"Alan J. Gould Alan Jenks Gould (January 30, 1898 – June 21, 1993) was a newspaper writer and editor. He was the sports editor of the Associated Press from 1922 to 1938 and the executive editor of the Associated Press from 1941 to 1963. While still in high school, Gould was hired by Frank Gannett (founder of Gannett media corporation) as a part-time reporter for the ""Star Gazette"" in Elmira, New York. He also worked for a time at Gannett's ""Ithaca Journal"". He next became the news editor of the ""Morning Sun"" in Binghamton, New York. Gould went to work"
"Blind Leroy Garnett Leroy Roscoe Garnett, known professionally as Blind Leroy Garnett (August 6, 1897 – January 3, 1933) was an American boogie-woogie and ragtime pianist and songwriter. His two solo recorded compositions were ""Louisiana Glide"" and ""Chain 'Em Down"", although scant details of his life and career are known. Garnett was born in Indianapolis, United States, to parents Charles and Mattie Garnett (née Georapy), who both hailed from Kentucky. By 1910, all of the family had relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where he remained until at least 1930. In 1918, Garnett was described as a ""piano player, not employed"", short,"
"lies next to his father-in-law Alexandre Mouton. Franklin Gardner Franklin Kitchell Gardner (January 29, 1823 – April 29, 1873) was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his service at the Siege of Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Gardner built extensive fortifications at this important garrison, 16,000 strong at its peak. At the mercy of conflicting orders, he found himself besieged and greatly outnumbered. His achievement at holding out for 47 days and inflicting severe losses on the enemy before surrendering has been praised by military historians. Gardner was born in New York City to"
"Tay Garnett William Taylor ""Tay"" Garnett (June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977) was an American film director and writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a naval aviator in World War I. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1920, writing for Mack Sennett. His credits included ""The Quack Doctor"" (1920). He wrote the feature ""Broken Chains"" (1922) for Sam Goldwyn and ""The Hottentot"" (1920) for Thomas Ince. Garnett went to work for Hal Roach for whom he wrote ""Don't Park There"" (1924). He did some with Stan"
"Hollywood Walk of Fame. Garnett published the book ""Directing: Learn from the Masters"" and an autobiography, ""Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights"". Tay Garnett William Taylor ""Tay"" Garnett (June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977) was an American film director and writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a naval aviator in World War I. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1920, writing for Mack Sennett. His credits included ""The Quack Doctor"" (1920). He wrote the feature ""Broken Chains"" (1922) for Sam Goldwyn and ""The Hottentot"""
"Al Goldstein Alvin ""Al"" Goldstein (January 10, 1936 – December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer who is known for normalizing hardcore pornography in the United States. He was described in his obituary in ""The New York Times"" as ""a cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of Borscht Belt comic, free-range social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a moment in New York City's cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and ‘70s."" Goldstein was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to a Jewish family. He attended Boys High. He served in the Army as a photographer (in"
"1888 at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Dr. Garnett contributed a number of papers to medical journals, which were all of great practical value and interest. The paper which he read at the meeting of this Society, in 1887, entitled “Observations on the Sanitary Advantages of Tide Water Virginia” is a fair example of his thoroughness in the treatment of medical questions. Other papers are: A.Y.P. Garnett Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett (September 8, 1820 – July 11, 1888) was an American physician. He was President of the American Medical Association, and served Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee during the American Civil"
"Al Laney Albert 'Al' Gillis Laney (January 11, 1896 – January 31, 1988) was an American sportswriter who specialized in tennis and golf but also covered baseball, boxing and American football. Laney was born on January 11, 1896 in Pensacola, Florida, the son of an attorney and one of six children. He served as a lieutenant in World War I and saw action at The Battle of the Argonne Forest. After World War I Laney became a correspondent at the New York Evening Mail. In 1924 he went to Europe and joined the Paris Herald, as the Paris edition of"
"Garet Garrett Garet Garrett (February 19, 1878 – November 6, 1954), born Edward Peter Garrett, was an American journalist and author, who is noted for his opposition to the New Deal and U.S. involvement in World War II. Garrett was born February 19, 1878, at Pana, Illinois, and grew up on a farm near Burlington, Iowa. He left home as a teenager, finding work as a printer's devil in Cleveland. In 1898, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he covered the administration of William McKinley as a newspaper reporter and then changed his first name to ""Garet"", which he pronounced"
"Samuel Gannett Samuel Stinson Gannett (February 10, 1861 – August 5, 1939) was an American geographer, topographer, and cartographer. He was born on February 10, 1861, in Augusta, Maine, cousin of Henry Gannett. He attended Bowdoin College, and then MIT. In 1882 he moved to Washington DC to work in the US Geological Survey, and in 1888 co-founded the National Geographic Society. His two most influential surveys were in the 20th century; the first in 1912 to determine Maryland's border with West Virginia, and the second in 1927 on the Red River to determine the border between Texas and Oklahoma."
"related to the military strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett (first cousin thrice removed). General Barnett's wife, Lelia (Montague) Gordon, was the first cousin of Alice (Montague) Warfield, the mother of Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, and sister-in-law to Captain Henry C. Mustin. His stepson, Basil Gordon (father of Basil Gordon), also served in the United States Marine Corps. George Barnett George Barnett (December 9, 1859April 27, 1930) was the 12th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. He was a pioneer of amphibious warfare and the U.S. Marine Commandant during American involvement in World War I. Barnett was"
"Buddy Blattner Robert Garnett ""Buddy"" Blattner (February 8, 1920 – September 4, 2009), known also as ""Bud"" Blattner, was an American table tennis and baseball player and radio and television sportscaster. A graduate of Beaumont High School in St. Louis, he started his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, making his big-league debut in the 1942 season. Following a stint in the U.S. Navy, Blattner played for the New York Giants (1946–48) and Philadelphia Phillies (1949), playing primarily at second base. Blattner played table tennis in his youth, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with James McClure"
"Erroll Garner Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1923 – January 2, 1977; some sources say b. 1921) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad ""Misty"", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him ""one of the most distinctive of all pianists"" and a ""brilliant virtuoso."" He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. Born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an African-American family on June 15, 1923, Erroll began playing piano at the age of three."
"Robert S. Garnett Robert Selden Garnett (December 16, 1819 – July 13, 1861) was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army until the American Civil War, when he became a Confederate States Army brigadier general. He was the first general officer killed in the Civil War. Garnett, the son of Robert Selden Garnett, Sr. and Charlotte Olympia De Gougea, was born at the family plantation in Essex County, Virginia. Along with his cousin, Richard B. Garnett, Robert attended the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, graduating 27th in a class of 52. Seven classmates,"
"Normand, respectively, in episode eight of series two of ITV's ""Mr. Selfridge"". Mack Sennett Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was an American film actor, director, and producer, and studio head, known as the King of Comedy. Born in Canada, he started in films in the Biograph company of New York, and later opened Keystone Studios in Edendale, California in 1912. It was the first fully enclosed film stage, and Sennett became famous as the originator of slapstick routines such as pie-throwing and car-chases, as seen in the Keystone Cops films. He also produced"
"Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He is recognized as a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. ""The Annotated Alice"", which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered"